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The Soft Skin

starring: Jean Desailly, Francoise Dorleac, Nelly Benedetti, Daniel Ceccaldi, Laurence Badie
directed by: Francois Truffaut

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Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9781572526037
Format: Black & White, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, Subtitled, NTSC
ISBN: 1572526033
Label: Fox Lorber
Manufacturer: Fox Lorber
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Letterbox
Publisher: Fox Lorber
Release Date: October 12, 1999
Running Time: 118 minutes
Sales Rank: 81076
Studio: Fox Lorber
Theatrical Release Date: 1964



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Amazon.com:
François Truffaut's cool, creamy-smooth melodrama of a doomed affair sets the lush romanticism of exciting indiscretion in a world where sudden stabs of ominous music hint at a tragedy in the making. Jean Desailly is a famous literary critic and publisher who becomes entranced with the lithe, strikingly beautiful flight attendant (Françoise Dorleac) who keeps crisscrossing his path while he's away on a speaking engagement. He's middle-aged, successful, and seemingly happily married with a wife and daughter, but he plunges ahead with an affair, careful to avoid friends and familiar places. The Soft Skin is not really a thriller, but Truffaut invests it with Hitchcockian echoes of guilt and fear of discovery, and he meticulously plots scenes with the precision of a heist film. Pulling back the veneer of chic elegance and attractive confidence, Desailly emerges not so much sordid as vain and pathetic, and his wife (Nelly Benedetti) comes into her own with her heartbreaking discovery of his lies. At once angry, hurt, and threatened, she grasps at reconciliation while sabotaging her own efforts with frustrated attacks. It's an unusual film with sudden changes in tone that do little to prepare the viewer for the dark climax: the tragic side of Truffaut's fascination with philandering men that runs throughout his career. Fans will recognize the scene with the kitten who licks off the plate set out for room service--he re-created it in Day for Night. --Sean Axmaker



Customer Reviews
Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Paris is not for us!
A successful businessman and affective husband meets an alluring airline stewardess in a flight to ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - At least she shoots him and not herself.
Watched Truffaut's "Soft Skin" last night. Left a chalky aftertaste in my mouth although I think it ... Read More


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Truffaut's soft touch
La Peau Douce/The Soft Skin is a very pleasant surprise indeed. There's a tendency in much of Truffauts' ... Read More


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Keeps you simultaneously glued to the narrative and fearful of the outcome.
Both intriguing and frustrating - the latter because you want to reach into the screen and slap the protagonist ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - All that Matters is The Soft Skin of The Woman You Love
When this film was released in 1964 it bombed commercially and was critically panned in every quarter, even booed ... Read More

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